Sweatin' to the oldies

[joeallonby]

Glenn, we are embiggened by your cromulence.

I have suggested on several occasions that he should seek your advice on
such matters.

on 11/4/04 7:41 PM, Glenn Scheper at glenn_scheper at earthlink.net wrote:

> This deserves repeating en toto.
> Only funny that jolly sent it...
> 
>> Table of Contents
> 
>> Book X
> 
>> Socrates -
>> GLAUCON
> 
>> Of he many excellences which I perceive in the order of our
>> State,
>> there is none which upon reflection pleases me better than
>> the rule about poetry.
> 
>> To what do you refer?
>> To the rejection of imitative poetry,
>> which certainly ought not to be received;
>> as I see far more clearly now that the parts of the soul
>> have been distinguished.
> 
>> What do you mean?
>> Speaking in confidence,
>> for I should not like to have my words repeated to the
>> tragedians and the rest of the imitative tribe --but I do
>> not mind saying to you,
>> that all poetical imitations are ruinous to the
>> understanding of the hearers,
>> and that the knowledge of their true nature is the only
>> antidote to them.
>> .......
> 
> ... for Jolly is like a tiger who appears to have mastered
> some rhetoric, and can outdo many. He has climbed near the
> top of the crapheap. But there is a Lion in the jungle, of
> which Jolly has no knowledge. Socrates' works belie he has
> direct gnosis: he is a metanoiac, metamorphosized, able to
> know the true meanings buried in but a smattering of works.
> Plato, while quoting Socarates, attracted me. But as Plato
> begins to reason for himself, he shows no more isomorphism
> to the domain of truth, trapped in his seamless simulacrum.
> Such a one is Jolly too, but prey or to disregard by Lions.
> He should, in fact, review my posts on how to fuck himself.
> 
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
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